countries with lower levels of public sector corruption and better functioning legal systems. Furthermore, the interaction …

countries with less public sector corruption, and for OECD countries with better functioning legal systems, but not for non …

, and exposed rampant government corruption involving construction and zoning code violations, as a factor magnifying the … on the other hand, were responsible for the incompetence shown in providing relief, for involvement in corruption related … responsible for different types of corruption and mismanagement provided us with a unique data to differentiate between voter …

It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that … a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be … chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This paper uses the recent wave of democratization and the resulting writing …

represented by Human Development Index (2007) and Human Poverty Index (2006). Democracy Index (2008) and Corruption Perceptions …

This paper analyzes how corruption affects the composition of public expenditures. First, a two-stage rent …-seeking model with endogenous rent-setting is derived that captures both "political corruption" and "bureaucratic corruption". The … levels of corruption. The significance of these distortions is robust to a variety of specifications such as fixed effects …

What keeps corruption in check? Politicians have incentives to both avoid and actively oppose corruption when voters … corruption—legislators with influence in the policy-making process—also are well-positioned to benefit from corruption. We thus … wisdom, that as the number of checks increase so also should corruption increase, all else equal. This conclusion follows …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …